Terrell on the Law of Patents

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Description
Patent law continues to evolve as it always has, but few would have predicted some of the developments which took place after the 18th edition of this work was published in early 2016. There was no hint that the doctrine of equivalents might come back into play; but following the landmark decision of the Supreme Court in Lilly v Actavis, the point is now a regular feature of trials in the Patents Court. Litigation about telecommunications patents was not uncommon in this jurisdiction but since the rulings on FRAND in Unwired Planet v Huawei and Conversant v ZTE & Huawei the number of cases has grown dramatically. The outcome of the Supreme Court's ruling in those cases is awaited. The split decision on infringement in Warner Lambert v Generics means that uncertainty remains about the correct approach to second medical use claims. The Unified Patent Court was not a certainty, but it was a sufficiently likely prospect as of 1 January 2016 that we included a chapter on its practice and procedure. However, now that the UK has left the EU and given the recent ruling of the German Federal Constitutional Court, the Editorial Board felt that to include a chapter on the UPC in this edition of the work could be described as optimistic.
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Table of Contents
Chapter 1 : Patents
Chapter 2 : The Nature of Patent able inventions
Chapter 3 : The Application 
Chapter 4 : Entitlement
Chapter 5 : The Granted Patent
Chapter 6 : Supplementary Protection Certificates
Chapter 7 : Property Date 
Chapter 8 : The 'Person Skilled in the Art' and Common
Chapter 9 : Construction of the Specification and Clams
Chapter 10 : Invalidity and the Ground of Revocation
Chapter 11 : Invalidity Due to Lack of Novelty
Chapter 12 : Invalidity Due to Obviousness
Chapter 13 : Invalidity Due to Insufficiency
Chapter 14 : Patent Infringement
Chapter 15 : Amendment of Specifications
Chapter 16 : Devolution, Assignments and Licences, Co-Ownership and Registration
Chapter 17 : Compulsory Licence and licence of Right
Chapter 18 : Frand
Chapter 19 : Practice and Procedure
Chapter 20 : The Intellectual Property Enterprise Court
Chapter 21 : Remedies for Infringement 
Chapter 22 : Declaration 
Chapter 23 : Action to Restrain Threats
Chapter 24 : Use by the Crown 
Appendices A to D
Index
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Author Details
Sir Colin Birss, One of the Justices Her Majesty's High Court